[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by RocktimusPryme

Which is my concern. I think I’m going to go with the stand alone pertronix rev limiter rather than a CD box. Seems easier to unhook if the box goes bad. So many people talk about getting stranded if the MSD box dies on your.

Trigger it with the points distributor and it's not a worry. I'm doing that on 2 other cars here. If the MSD box ever dies, I can pop the hood, swap a couple wires around and drive away on the points. It's really become my favorite setup as of late.

The stand alone rev limiters like the Pertronix, or Crane, are pretty rough. It'll do what you're looking for as far as saving the engine, but boy when you hit the rev limiter on those things it feels like the engine is come apart, lol. It's nothing like the soft touch rev control of a CD box that moves random cylinders around. Plus those little control units have left me stranded more than once so I tend to not trust them.

[RocktimusPryme]

Originally Posted by Formulajones

Trigger it with the points distributor and it's not a worry. I'm doing that on 2 other cars here. If the MSD box ever dies, I can pop the hood, swap a couple wires around and drive away on the points. It's really become my favorite setup as of late.

The stand alone rev limiters like the Pertronix, or Crane, are pretty rough. It'll do what you're looking for as far as saving the engine, but boy when you hit the rev limiter on those things it feels like the engine is come apart, lol. It's nothing like the soft touch rev control of a CD box that moves random cylinders around. Plus those little control units have left me stranded more than once so I tend to not trust them.

FWIW I was just looking at the Pertronix unit, it says it steals random sparks.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/pnx-600

I have an aftermarket billet unit so I cant really do the points thing.

I just felt like the way this thing hooks up it would be very easy to simply take it out of the loop in the event it stopped working.

[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by RocktimusPryme

FWIW I was just looking at the Pertronix unit, it says it steals random sparks.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/pnx-600

I have an aftermarket billet unit so I cant really do the points thing.

I just felt like the way this thing hooks up it would be very easy to simply take it out of the loop in the event it stopped working.

Oh I see, they have a digital unit now. I quit using them back about when they came out with a Pertronix II so it's been quite a while for me.

You're thinking like me, if that can be taken out of the loop fairly easy then I feel a lot better about running stuff like this. Easy to bypass in the event of a failure.